In September 2004, the Municipal Gallery hosted the exhibition “350 Years Later,” which was also exhibited at the Central Exhibition Hall of the Union of Artists of Ukraine and the Dziga Art Center.

The reason for creating the project was the 350th anniversary of the Pereyaslav Rada of 1654. The idea to create a creative expression about a historical event in the language of contemporary art belongs to the curator of the exhibition, Petro Bevza. Petro Bevza is a curator and participant in many art projects. He graduated from the Kyiv State Art Institute (now – NAOMA) in 1985.

He received an Honorary Diploma of Kyiv for the best work of art in 1994. He is the holder of awards from national and international exhibitions, and has personal art projects in Ukraine and abroad.

The exhibition featured 14 artists: Oleksandr Babayev, Tamara Babak, Petro Bevza, Petro Gonchar, Andriy Gurenko, Mykola Zhuravel, Vlodko Kaufman, Oleksiy Litvinenko, Andriy Nakorchevskiy, Oksana Plysyuk, Roman Romanyshyn, Temo Sviryely, Yuliya Tolmachova, and Igor Yaremchuk. The exhibition included video and photo installations, exhibition objects, graphics, sculpture, and paintings by Ukrainian artists.

“The art project ‘350 Years Later’ is the embodiment of Pereyaslav abstraction as a stylistic device that, firstly, inspires one to ask oneself several questions …”

“What are the main accents of self-identification of Ukrainians: the passivity of marginal indifference or the affirmation of the practical wisdom of existence as an exhaustive answer to the challenges of the environment? The goal of this art project is to help perceive the future as an open and conscious possibility.” ©️Petro Bevza

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